Poetry Explorer- Classic Contemporary Poetry, PREPARATORY MEDITATIONS, 2D SERIES: 103, by EDWARD TAYLOR


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First Line: The deity did call a parliament
Last Line: Then as I eate, my lips with grace shall flow.
Subject(s): Puritans In Literature


The Deity did call a Parliament
Of all the Properties Divine to sit
About mankinde. Justice her Law out went.
All Vote man's life to stand or fall by it,
But Grace gave band securing Gods Elect.
Justice, if Wisdom tended Grace, accepts.

Man out doth come, and soon this Law disgrac't.
Justice offended, Grace to worke doth Fall
And in the way of Purest wisdom, traced
New Covenants man and to return him calls.
Erects New Cov'nant worship suited to
His present State to save him from all Woe.

And in this Course Glory to offer bright
Through Graces Hand unto Almighty God
Her Credits Good. Justice therein delights.
Rests in her Bill yet Grace prepares a Rod
That if her subjects her sweet rules neglect,
She with her golden rod may them Correct.

New Covenant worship Wisdom first proclaims
Deckt up in Types and Ceremonies gay.
Rich Metaphors the first Edition gains.
A Divine key unlocks these trunks to lay
All spirituall treasures in them open Cleare.
The Ark and Mannah, in't, Christ and Good Cheere.

This first Edition did the Cov'nant tend
With Typick Seales and Rites and Ceremonie
That till the Typick Dispensations end
Should ratify it as Gods Testimony.
'Mong which the Passover (whose Kirnell's Christ)
Tooke place with all its Rites, graciously spic't.

But when the Pay day came their kirnells Pickt.
The Shell is cast out hence. Cloudes flew away.
Now Types good night, with Ceremonies strict,
The Glorious Sun is risen, its broad day.
Now Passover farewell, and leave thy Place.
Lords Supper seales the Covenant of Grace.

But though the Passover is passt away.
And Ceremonies that belong'd to it,
Yet doth its kirnell and their Kirnell stay
Attending on the Seale succeeding it.
The Ceremony parting leaves behinde
Its Spirit to attend this Seale designd.

As it passt off, it passt its place o're to
The Supper of the Lord (Choice Feast) to seale
The Covenant of Grace thus, even so
The Ceremoniall Cleaness did reveale
A Spirituall Cleaness qualifying all
That have a Right to tend this Festivall.

All must grant Ceremonies must have Sense.
Or Ceremonies are but senseless things.
Had God no reason when, for to dispense
His Grace, he ope'd all Ceremoniall Springs?
The reason why God deckt his sacred Shine
With Senseless Ceremonies, here Divine.

A Typick Ceremony well attends
A Typick Ordinance, these harmonize.
A Spirituall Ordinance the Type suspendes
And Onely owneth Spirituall Qualities
To have a right thereto. And this the Will
The dying Ceremony made, stands still.

Morall, and Ceremoniall cleaness, which
The Pascall Lamb requir'd Foreshow the Guests
Must at the Supper Seale with Spoiles be rich
Of Sin and be with Saving Grace up dresst.
God Chose no Ceremonies for their sake
But for Signification did them take.

Give me true Grace that I may grace thy Feast.
My Gracious Lord, and so sit at thy Table.
Thy Spirituall Dainties this Rich Dress at least
Will have the Guests have. Nothing less is able
To prove their right to't. This therefore bestow.
Then as I eate, my lips with Grace shall flow.





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